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situation," said the executive
director of a major Jewish
group here. "There's nothing
wrong with peace and coop-
eration. But this is not exact-
ly new ground they're plow-
ing; given Owens' meeting
with Arafat and given his
mixed voting record on Israel,
you'd have to say that there's
a lot of skepticism about what
these people want to ac-
complish."
JAMES DAVID BESSER
Washington Correspondent
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ewish senators are a
rare breed, so when
any are seriously
challenged for re-election, the
race tends to perk up the in-
terest of the national Jewish
community.
Currently, Sen. Carl Levin,
(D-Mich.), appears to be a ma-
jor target for GOP planners in
the 1990 elections.
The Republican Senate
campaign committee has ap-
parently singled Levin out as
one of the most vulnerable
Democratic incumbents in
the next election. Levin, a for-
thright liberal who pretty
much goes his own way in the
Senate, has never won more
than 52 percent of the
Michigan vote. Levin's
political base contains a grow-
ing number of politically ac-
tive Arab-Americans.
And Levin is beginning the
1990 campaign marathon
without a sizable war chest, a
fact that weakens his ability
to withstand a serious
challenge.
Despite the assessment of
their candidate's vulnerabili-
ty, Levin's staff seems spoil-
ing for a fight. Sources with
pro-Israel PACs indicate that
Levin will have no trouble
picking up financial backing
from Jewish contributors —
despite Levin's pivotal role in
last year's "Letter of Thirty,"
the Senate letter that en-
couraged the Israeli govern-
ment to take a more flexible
approach to the peace process.
Owens' Actions
Cause Concern
Among Jews
The waters of Middle East
politics are treacherous, a
fact that Rep. Wayne Owens,
(D-Utah), has been learning
the hard way in recent days.
Owens earned the wrath of
some Jewish leaders by
meeting with Yassir Arafat in
Tunis for more than four
hours last week on a wide
range of topics.
According to Capitol Hill
sources, several of Owens'
House colleagues attempted
to dissuade him from making
the trip. But apparently
Owens had the go-ahead from
one of his political mentors,
Rep. Lee Hamilton, (D-Ind).
A week earlier, the Utah
congressman generated crit-
icism for his handling of hear-
ings on the State Department
human rights report that in-
Jewish Groups
Are Slowing
Aids Efforts
Levin:
looking vulnerable to the
Republicans.
eluded language highly
critical of Israel's handling of
the intifada. Owens was fill-
ing for Human Rights Sub-
committee chairman Gus
Yatron.
But Owens, whose interest
in the Arab-Israeli conflict
dates back to several trips to
the region last year, is moving
ahead with efforts to become
a player on the hazard-strewn
stage of Middle East politics.
Owens is currently involved
in a new organization devoted
to Middle East matters.
"What we hope to do is pro-
mote economic and cultural
exchanges in the Middle
East," said Robert Goldman,
executive director of the
Center for Middle East Peace
and Economic Cooperation.
Until recently, Goldman was
Rep. Owens' legislative direc-
tor. "For example, we'd like to
pursue exchanges between
Egypt and Israel. Although
we've had ten years of peace,
there have not been many
cultural exchanges. To the ex-
tent that you can foster these,
it will help break down stere-
otypes."
The group, Goldman said,
will also focus on scientific
and educational exchanges.
"On a practical level, there
are issues involving energy,
water and agriculture in
which meetings of experts
from the different countries
in the region could be very
helpful. This is the kind of
thing we are interested in."
But the plan for the new
organization has not been
met with enthusiasm in the
organized Jewish community.
"Basically , it's just confus-
ing an already confusing
The Jewish community has
always been quick to take up
a wide range of social causes.
But today's AIDS epidemic is
different, according to some
experts; the horror of the
disease itself and the moral
questions centering on its
transmission have produced a
response from the organized
Jewish community that is
mixed, at best.
Reversing this sluggish
response has become a per-
sonal crusade for one Jewish
activist. Dan Najjar is
founder and director of the
National Jewish Aids Project,
a 3-year-old group devoted to
AIDS education in the Jewish
community.
Jewish groups have held
back on helping AIDS victims
for a number of reasons, Naj-
jar said.
"First, there's the fact that
Jewish groups want to do
things primarily to help
Jews," he said. "There's a
strong survival instinct —
and they haven't yet come to
the place where they see
AIDS as a threat to Jews."
Jewish groups, Najjar said,
lack the emphasis on "out-
reach" that characterizes
some Christian groups. "So
the Episcopals have hired a
minister to be available to
any person with AIDS;
they're willing to raise money
to provide pastoral care for
anybody with AIDS. We don't
see that in Jewish organiza-
tions."
And Jewish people with
AIDS tend to live lives out-
side the organized Jewish
community. As a result, Naj-
jar said, they may be easier
for the community to ignore
— a fact that he argued will
change as the appalling
numbers continue to mount
and the disease strikes closer
to home.
"Clearly, Jewish leaders
have a fine line to walk," Naj-
jar said. "They may want to
respond to AIDS, but they
-